Environmental organizations set Ultimatum to Wiersma: nitrogen consultation or lawsuits

Environmental organizations threaten with a series of new lawsuits such as agricultural minister Femke Wiersma (BBB) ​​will not discuss the nitrogen plans of its ministerial committee within two weeks. In a letter sent to the minister, viewed by NRC,, «  Write Mob and the Association of Environment that the plans presented in April make it « demonstrably impossible » that the legal nitrogen goals are achieved. According to the organizations, the proposals are seriously deficient.

Lawsuits

Wiersma recently indicated that the ministerial committee will further elaborate the nitrogen measures in the coming months. According to the environmental organizations, that is not sufficient. In the letter to the minister they write that they have made it « only on the spot » by not making new lawsuits « to give the ministerial nitrogen committee a fair chance », but that time is now over.

Mob and Environment want to talk to Wiersma within two weeks ‘with the aim of a balanced package of measures’. If the minister does not tighten its nitrogen policy before this ultimatum expires, the environmental organizations will start dozens of new legal proceedings. They will be aimed at mega stables, peak bursters, and against livestock farmers who work without the right permits.

The two environmental organizations have been successful for years against the government’s nitrogen policy. In 2019, the Council of State set out the Nitrogen Approach (PAS) program (PAS), because this national nitrogen policy was contrary to European nature conservation laws.

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